Bryan Kestenbaum 2009 An Introduction to Clinical Research This textbook was born from a disparate collection of written materials that were created to teach Epidemiology and Biostatistics to second year medical students at the University of Washington. These materials included handouts, practice problems, guides to reading research articles, quizzes, notes from student help sessions, and student emails.

Edited by Ichiro Kawachi S.V. Subramanian Daniel Kim 2008

Edited by Yichen Lu M. Essex Bryan Roberts 2008 In the 1997 annual Harvard AIDS Institute think-tank meeting at the Endicott House in a suburb of Boston, Dr. Natth Bhamarapravati of Thailand reported an interesting observation: emerging infections in Asia seemed to have become a regular event. Not only had we seen new pathogens such as Nipah virus […]

Richard J. Cook Jerald F. Lawless 2007 Recurrent event data arise in fields such as medicine and public health, business and industry, reliability, the social sciences, and insurance. The literature on the statistical analysis of recurrent events has grown rapidly over the past twenty years and a variety of models and methods has been developed.

Edited by Lynda S. Doll Sandra E. Bonzo David A. Sleet James A. Mercy 2007 We live in challenging times and our attention becomes focused on the public health threats that lead daily news reports. Yet, there is one health threat that the public has accepted as fait accompli—injuries. Injuries kill more Americans in their first three decades […]